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IN a western direction from Pi-an-fu there is a large and handsome fortress named Thai-gin, 1 which is said to have been built, at a remote period, by a king…

Marco Polo’s classic account of his travels throughout the East in the 13th century is one of the earliest European travel narratives. Revised from Marsden’s translation, this book is edited…